Sullivan Co. school board wants cops for all schools

Rick Wagner
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Jan 8, 2013 at 12:42 PM

BLOUNTVILLE — The Sullivan County Board of Education’s aim is to have a school resource officer assigned to all 20 school campuses in the county, not just the four high schools that have had SROs since 1997.

School security proposals have emerged nationwide in the aftermath of the Dec. 14 killing of 26 people — 20 students and six adults — at Sandy Hook Elementary School by an armed gunman, who earlier killed his mother and after the school killings killed himself before police could capture him.